We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow is the Black Lips' second LP album, released in 2004.

The name is a reference to a line from the Hayao Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke.

"Notown Blues" features Bradford Cox of Deerhunter on drums.

Notown was the name of a studio and rehearsal space in Marietta, Georgia.

[2] Original Black Lips guitarist Ben Eberbaugh, who died in a car accident in 2002, played on "Juvenile."